- — 50 years later, solid as Gary Snyder —
- — Download the font of Emily Dickinson’s handwriting —
- — Disease Causality —
- — Do you have an Ogden Nash anecdote or unpublished Nash verse? The North Hampton Public Library is collecting stories about the versifier and his private poems for an upcoming exhibit —
- — Poem of the week: Childhood by Anne Bradstreet —
- — Baseball’s October Play —
- — Nobody’s reading books! Nobody’s reading newspapers! Nobody’s reading magazines! What chance does poetry have? —
- — Should We Ban Poets’ Biographies from Poetry Magazines? —
- — Here are a few definitions of poetry (and of what a poem is) that I like, and that are not as well-known as Wordsworth’s spontaneously overflowing feelings, Coleridge’s “best words in the best order” or Dickinson’s unwarmable body and head with the top taken off. —
- — Elements of Style: Three Poets, Three New Books —
- — Iranians on Monday commemorated the national day of Hafez Shirazi, a 14th-century Persian poet and mystic highly revered by not only Iranians but also famous writers and scholars all across the world —
- — Celebrated eisteddfod poet dies —
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Poetry News For October 13, 2009
Poetry News For October 2, 2009
Posts will be long and frabjous until I get caught up. — Jilly
- — Poetry Noir – Robert Polito on the intersection of Hollywood and God. [mp3] —
- — Lord Byron’s dig at William ‘Turdsworth’ —
- — Poetry: ‘Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious: A Book Report’ —
- — Round Two Runner-Up: Poetry At Six —
- — The most difficult poetry assignment I ever envisioned is to write a 10-line poem about neutrinos with alternating lines containing a metaphor and a gerund. Here are Jennifer Karmin’s & my, Bernadette Mayer’s groundbreaking neutrino poems —
- — Best American Poetry 2009 —
- — Northwestern Backs Its Press, Plans to Move Journal Online —
- — The Little Poet of Laugh-In Has Died: Henry Gibson, Age 72 —
- — Jean Valentine and Harryette Mullen Receive Major Poetry Awards —
- — Scary Music Is Scarier With Your Eyes Shut —
- — Celebrating Nash’s Legacy in North Hampton —
- — In honour of the Notting Hill carnival, let’s take a look at the sounds and shapes of a Dada poem —
- — How to Read Poetry and Why People Don’t —
- — Writing how-to poems is, actually, a useful exercize in quite deliberately beckoning the imagination. —
- — Seven Kitchens Press reprints Christina Pacosz’s Notes from the Red Zone —
- — Bookslut – Jean Valentine Interviewing Kate Greenstreet —
- — Robert Frank’s Elevator Girl Sees Herself Years Later —
- — Mezzo Cammin —
- — Poetry corner – The Bathers of the Ladies’ Pond
from mirror.co.uk – Life & Style – Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry Corner — - — The Blood-Jet Writing hour With Rachel Cruz – Join Rachelle as she talks to Dorianne Laux —
- — Dionne Brand, a Governor General’s Award-winning writer, has been named Toronto’s poet laureate. —
- — Ruth knocked out —
- — Carl Sandburg Writing Residency —
- — Steve Fellner on Accessibility in Poetry —
Poetry News For August 19, 2009
- — BIG OUTPUT OF POETRY.; Very Large Percentage of Americans Are Writing Verse. Mar 17, 1918, Sunday —
- — St. Kate’s English professor uses poetry to teach growth and healing —
- — Giant knitted poem takes shape —
- — Whose cheek is this? —
- — Ogden Nash’s 108th Birthday Party —
- — Weekly Poem: ‘Beauty Parlor’ from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS Andrea Hollander Budy [mp3] —
- — Junk Man: Poet and Professor Albert Goldbarth from Poetry | NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS [mp3] —
- — Jim Daniels from How a Poem Happens —
- — Mozart’s death has been attributed to many causes, but a new report suggests he died of a common infection. —
- — Thanks to the seven kids and one grownup who signed up to illustrate poems. —
- — Utah judge writes staffer a love poem: ‘I’d love to….’ —
- — Amiri Baraka: Perspectives on Music and Race —
- — why I got an MFA in creative writing —
- — Many of the 20 senryu, or a 17-character humorous poems, are satirical swipes at the current political situation and politicians’ behaviors —
- — Kerouac’s unintended legacy? A legal limbo —
Poetry News For August 4, 2009
- — Shelley’s Unpublished After-the-War Message ASHLEY THORNDIKE July 3, 1921, Sunday —
- — Gillian Welch: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —
- — “Q” from The New Yorker by Sharon Olds —
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- — On this edition of The Poets Weave, Heather Derr-Smith reads from her new book The Bride Minaret the poems “One Season from Another,” “Evening, Mount Vernon, Iowa” and “Ash-Sham.” [mp3] —
- — Hilbert writes with spare language, in colloquial prose rhythms with irregular stress patterns, yet he is able to maintain deft control through the use of mostly decasyllabic lines and off-rhymes. Perhaps Hilbert’s lines reflect our own precarious hold on the world, where we are always close to losing control. —
- — Poet Nash kept it light, and I say that’s just right —
- — Then there is Cavafy’s life. He, to be both compassionate and fair, was odd. —
- — Beats | McClure [Gray] GROUPS: New Formal Mens Shoe – Whether you are reading poetry to caged lions at the zoo, or writing songs for Janis Joplin to sing, this slip-on loafer is all about you. —
- — This week, one of one of contemporary poetry’s most effortlessly musical writers —
- — At their most successful, these poems make a virtue of understatement, employing simple formal structures (typically unrhymed, three-to-five beat lines arranged in regular stanzas) and straightforward statement that acts as a foil for moments of quiet boldness —
- — Sun Records’ ‘lost giant’ Billy Lee Riley dies at 75 —
- — Bookslut | The Kings are Boring: Some Thoughts on Women’s Poetry —
- — Two Mozart Childhood Compositions Unveiled in Salzburg [youtube]—
- — Portrait of famed lover and poet is, like its subject, flawed —
- — What we lose with no laureate —
- — The Chappell show: Master poet comes to Asheville with duet poems —
- — The Saturday poem: The Hunt in the Forest by John Burnside —
- — Neko Case: Newport Folk Festival 2009 from NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast [mp3] —
- — Kentucky’s 2007/08 poet laureate talks about the state’s rich literary heritage and the duties of the position and reads some of her own poetry. —
- — This week’s theme: Steroids in Baseball —
Reb Livingston twitterededed about this, which gave me a sour stomach and made me think of horse races and jockeying for position so I started humming this song.
